Even at the National Library, the thieves went straight to the rarest books, maps and manuscripts, according to Dr. Maguire Gibson, an American scholar who is one of the world's leading experts on the archaeology of Iraq, “The operations were organized from outside.
Según el Dr. Maguire Gibson, investigador americano, que es uno de los principales expertos mundiales en arqueología del Iraq, “las operaciones fueron organizadas desde el exterior. Fueron obra de bandas organizadas que sabían lo que buscaban”.